Judge orders Trump admin to rescind order to fire probationary employees

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to rescind directives that caused the mass firings of recently hired and promoted federal employees, ruling that the issuing agency had no such power to do so.“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe to hire and fire employees at another agency,” Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District for Northern California. The judge ordered the admi